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And they threw him out of the vineyard [and] killed [him]. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
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He will come and destroy those tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others." And [when they] heard [this], they said, "[May this] never happen!"
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But he looked intently at them [and] said, "What then is this that is written: 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become {the cornerstone}.'
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Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and [the one] on whom it falls--it will crush him!"
19
And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay [their] hands on him at [that] same hour, and they were afraid of the people, for they knew that he had told this parable with reference to them.
Paying Taxes to Caesar
20 And they watched [him] closely [and] sent spies who pretended they were upright, in order that they could catch him in a statement, so that they could hand him over to the authority and the jurisdiction of the governor.
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And they asked him, saying, "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and do not {show partiality}, but teach the way of God in truth.
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Is it permitted [for] us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"
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But seeing through their craftiness, he said to them,
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"Show me a denarius! Whose image and inscription does it have?" And they answered [and] said, "Caesar's."
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So he said to them, "Well then, give to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God!"